The Sonics beat the Cavs. Best game yet. Wow. Flip, I am sorry for all I have said. Your performance tonight has cleansed you of your sins. If we win two out of the next three (NY, IND, Utah) we are lookin fine and dandy. The NW is so weak. I still think we'll win it. There is just too much talent here.

Consistency is all we need out of flip, those drive and dishes? Drawing contact? He's immensely talented and I really scratch my head when he struggles. It seems like if he could simply continue the penetration it wouldn't even matter if the J was flowing, he's got the athleticism that should allow it. Bring it for a few games in a row flip and we should be sittin real pretty.

_Kevin in Korea

PS: Still having a tough time with the torrent issues. If ANYONE who frequents this site and is computer savvy, Karma will return to you ten fold anyone who can cap sonics games.

Certainly the best game I've seen all year (though being out here in New York that's admittedly not many). Besides Flip, I was really pleased with the play of Wilkins and Radmanovic off the bench. The Supes have to be able to score when they sit Lewis and/or Allen, and tonight that was the case.

The play where Fortson got stuffed on a flat-footed layup, right before he got tossed out? If that had been Kemp in his heyday, he woulda dunked it with two hands, rubbed his jock on Ilgauskas' flattop, and landed in a ninja pose, running backwards with his hands locked in position.

re: Vladdy-Granddaddy:I can't find any pics on the web yet, but it did happen. I saw a clip of his performance on the news last Christmas season. Imagine Vlade's already craggy face done up in old man theater makeup, looking about 9-ft tall next to all these teeny ballerinas. Easily the creepiest grandfather since Peter Boyle in "Monster's Ball."

Honestly when I turned the game on last night and saw Flip on the court during crunch time I was mad. I didn't understand the rationale until they said how well he was playing. Even then I didn't like it so much, it still felt like there was just too much of him ball hogging and other guys standing. I'm glad we won and he played well but I wasn't that comfortable with it.

The Kemp video is sick, I think the thing that impressed me the most about it was some of his dribbling. Reign Man had some pretty good handles.